LAA @ BOS
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“The challenge cart got its steps in.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Eli White vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.30▼8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Roman Anthony vs Tayler Saucedo - 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wade Meckler vs Raymond Burgos
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jose Siri — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Wade Meckler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.